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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I am pleased to announce the results of the civil
society coordination group process to provide representatives on the 1net
steering committee.</FONT><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"> </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Our representatives will be</FONT></P>
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<LI><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Joana Varon</FONT></SPAN> </FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Rafik Dammak</FONT></SPAN> </FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Anriette Esterhuysen</FONT></SPAN> </FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Vladimir Radunovik</FONT></SPAN> </FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Anja Kovacs</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"> </SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">With Marilia Maciel to fill any vacancy should any of
the others find it impossible to continue.</FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">PROCESS –</FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The selection committee was formed from representatives
of the networks of NCSG (Robin Gross), APC (Chat Garcia Ramilo), Diplo (Virginia
Paque), and Best Bits (Jeremy Malcolm). Ian Peter was an independent
facilitator. Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) was involved with the process and
the call for nominations, but when its representative and sole co ordinator at
this stage (Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro) withdrew at a late stage it was not
possible to provide a replacement in the short time frame. Hopefully these
difficulties within IGC will be resolved for future efforts (with IGC co
ordinator elections due now). However, with 3 ex-coordinators of IGC involved
with the selection process we believe its interests were fully
represented.</FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Calls from nominations were invited on the mailing lists
of Diplo, Best Bits, IGC, NCSG and other civil society networks. Diplo
community undertook a process of narrowing its large pool of nominations to two
names before consideration by other selection committee members, and the result
of the various calls from various networks was that 13 names were considered by
the committee. The final names were arrived at by consensus of all the
representatives involved.</FONT><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">All of these representatives were chosen for their
capacity to represent civil society as a whole, not just their individual
organisational affiliations. We believe these representatives give a good cross
section of the various interests of civil society in internet governance
issues.</FONT><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt">Ian Peter</P>
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